Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2483acbeef300d58…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-07-03 09:25:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 9d00368a1d4da2e951e7e92c99414ee8 SHA-1: 03c5f1e9d947aa62130c57e0b8372ddbb839673b SHA-256: 2483acbeef300d580fff80cc9361ff2d98028bd47fe52ce3cd1333b8a8961a9c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious PDFs designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=inhaled+foreign+body PDF link annotation
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d5774eb746---bodigigagexobosoladurosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1lbri1atk80qpb7ofujlibc1ik/rudiverowifeduzat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb5ebc0qc301m5chc07fsjb4q3/28410195493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lastcallslc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/996109c9ddac9d4a33eda1bfd4f0c886/lakubepowasuxizemezeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af2b7814ba8---5799904982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icltindia.in/userfiles/file/bowavurarirorafuxux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tasteofruraleurope.eu/upload/File/29163411425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce510e263446160f3591989cdf8fc7a4/nilopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://conexusinternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/file/54862302084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dafangtour.com/fckeditor/userimages/file/kepalozamiseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/rezugadurukikerupepisaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac07bf0cca3---16173380862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985360e3b89---dawimovitusafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hayatteknoloji.com/webimage/file/88040760421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixknights.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fcb0069123f25335d0f338484b046dd/29233147316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff4d67afe8cd881ab910f0ab11c8cf4a/50403747766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6db49a017853449627f0ab30d74c135d/8205050847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesahighclassof63.com/clients/79820/File/jogufutusometitaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alsharqcc.com/userfiles/files/26659879829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/246314c2d4a4cea70964ad10b0f98c05/zikofowatopezivis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087527f79fda---55260684366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/1487159709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medlineplus.gov/foreignbodies.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d645.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD645 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE5C 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 64f75af91c1cb332edfe0b5b0f83f9b54057e32488a5a22604f5d04c7708f466
font_02_sfnt_off0001060d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1060D 16968 bytes
SHA-256: 0a38a2c1052ff4df62e4c4507c1d7b7f5af61e3299c320d607140976f2489611

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